About Our Archives
Researchers interested in the Papers of the American Historical Association will find them at the Library of Congress’s Manuscript Reading Room in Washington, DC.
Please note that these materials are offered only for their historical interest, not as statements of current policy or positions on specific historical topics today.
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December 1, 2003
The Education of Historians for the Twenty-first Century
Four decades after the publication of the 1962 report, the time seems appropriate for a new study. The discipline and the profession have experienced significant changes over the last several decades.
November 1, 2003
Questions Regarding the Policy Statement on Institutional Review Boards
Brief answers to common questions about the recently announced policy excluding most oral history interviewing projects from Institutional Review Board review.
May 1, 2003
Standards for Employment of Part-Time Faculty
These standards explain best practices for the employment of part-time faculty in history departments.
February 23, 2002
GI Roundtable Series (1943-46)
Online publication of the GI pamphlet series of the AHA forces us to rethink the hard and fast divisions historians and the general public typically make about the 20th century.
January 1, 1999
Who Is Teaching in US College Classrooms?
Surveys by a number of humanities and social science disciplines in the Coalition on the Academic Work Force provide compelling new evidence about the use and treatment of part-time and adjunct faculty.
June 1, 1998
Guidelines for the Employment of Part-Time and Temporary Faculty in History
Approved by AHA Council, June 1, 1998 The employment of historians as part-time and temporary faculty has increased dramatically in…
January 8, 1998
Statement on Intellectual Diversity by the Coalition of History Editors for Publishing in the Future
We challenge the organizations that provide electronic archiving of journals, the online delivery of journals’ contents, and the computerized search engines to include the broadest representation of historical fields.
January 1, 1998
Working Together to Strengthen History Teaching in Secondary Schools
One of the most fundamental collaborations among historians is also the least examined. It is the shared effort of teaching historians in K-12 schools, community colleges, and four-year colleges and universities to develop in students historical understanding and habits of thinking historically.
January 1, 1998
Why Study History? (1998)
History should be studied because it is essential to individuals and to society, and because it harbors beauty.